The Press: Death Stops the Shutter

Photographer Robert Capa, who spoke five languages, was once asked which
language he "thought" in. After mulling over the question,
Capa answered: "I think in pictures." Most of the pictures
Capa thought in were of war. As a LIFE staffer in World War II, Capa
earned a reputation as the best combat photographer in the world.
Although he hated war ("It is like an aging actress: more and more
dangerous, and less and less photogenic"), Capa was seldom far
from the front lines.
Armed with three cameras and a flask of Scotch, he jumped with U.S
paratroopers into Nazi-held Germany. At...